Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele, joint author · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 111
ose size ischangeable. The gowns are stretched to smooth-ness by whalebones. To be loose and smooth,the whalebones must lie from the highest pointof one curve to the highest point of the next,destroying at once all natural beauty of outline.The result is a cuirass, in which the body maytwist… … Fi g-3- The conventional gown is the outcome of thelabour of thousands of mechanical workers. Itwould be strange if it did not fulfil the aim of somuch effort. It does realize the acme of smooth-ness, tightness, neatness, however inapt. It makesavailable even moderate skill in the production…
Beauty, Personal · Clothing and dress
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